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Ever since returning from winter break, playing Smash has turned into a bit of a roller coaster ride. Naturally, college has higher priority for me, as not even Smash will screw my chances of becoming a seismologist. However, other circumstances have...complicated things. In what free time I have left, past classes and such, I only get to play against other humans once a week (if I'm lucky). Whenever I play Smash otherwise, it's usually a quick few rounds versus a weak CPU to keep my Falco at a decent level, or practicing continuous desynching with the Ice Climbers in Training Mode. What concerns me is that while I want to get better at this game, I feel being limited to such a schedule won't help at all - I seem to lose a bunch of the skills I obtain between each smashfest I attend, only relearning them when I play against humans. Unfortunately, my problems run much deeper than that - to tell the truth, what's going on in Minnesota is affecting everyone here who plays Smash.
James Sparrow, one of Minnesota's best players, recently announced that due to real life issues, he will no longer be hosting the University of St. Thomas (UST) Biweeklies, the state's signature Smash tournament. As far as I can tell, no one is taking over for him, so the famous UST Biweeklies are well and truly gone. In fact, February has seen pretty much every Smash event in the state disappear entirely. I mentioned the UST Biweeklies, but Joemotion also stopped holding his Friday Night Smashdowns, which features both Melee and Brawl, for an undisclosed period of time. The only sort of regular Smash meetings the state has left are those held by RoxasLawliet, but as of last week he has banned Brawl from his house, having concluded he hated the game (I swear, this Melee vs. Brawl argument is becoming destructive in more ways than one, but I digress).
All that's happening here just came about so suddenly, I almost fear for the immediate life of competitive Smash in Minnesota. For some reason I can compare this to the weather in Minneapolis - a "hot spell" of sorts two weeks ago had caused most of the area's snow to melt (imagine my distress at the sight of grass, being a big fan of ice). Of course, the tournament scene will not vanish completely - as long as people are willing to play others and strive to get better, something will click and a new series of events will emerge (I have neither the time nor the resources to set up one myself, as much as I'd like to). I can only hope this "drought" won't last long. Perhaps the fact that it snowed again here recently means something good will happen. Until next time, see you later.
Ever since returning from winter break, playing Smash has turned into a bit of a roller coaster ride. Naturally, college has higher priority for me, as not even Smash will screw my chances of becoming a seismologist. However, other circumstances have...complicated things. In what free time I have left, past classes and such, I only get to play against other humans once a week (if I'm lucky). Whenever I play Smash otherwise, it's usually a quick few rounds versus a weak CPU to keep my Falco at a decent level, or practicing continuous desynching with the Ice Climbers in Training Mode. What concerns me is that while I want to get better at this game, I feel being limited to such a schedule won't help at all - I seem to lose a bunch of the skills I obtain between each smashfest I attend, only relearning them when I play against humans. Unfortunately, my problems run much deeper than that - to tell the truth, what's going on in Minnesota is affecting everyone here who plays Smash.
James Sparrow, one of Minnesota's best players, recently announced that due to real life issues, he will no longer be hosting the University of St. Thomas (UST) Biweeklies, the state's signature Smash tournament. As far as I can tell, no one is taking over for him, so the famous UST Biweeklies are well and truly gone. In fact, February has seen pretty much every Smash event in the state disappear entirely. I mentioned the UST Biweeklies, but Joemotion also stopped holding his Friday Night Smashdowns, which features both Melee and Brawl, for an undisclosed period of time. The only sort of regular Smash meetings the state has left are those held by RoxasLawliet, but as of last week he has banned Brawl from his house, having concluded he hated the game (I swear, this Melee vs. Brawl argument is becoming destructive in more ways than one, but I digress).
All that's happening here just came about so suddenly, I almost fear for the immediate life of competitive Smash in Minnesota. For some reason I can compare this to the weather in Minneapolis - a "hot spell" of sorts two weeks ago had caused most of the area's snow to melt (imagine my distress at the sight of grass, being a big fan of ice). Of course, the tournament scene will not vanish completely - as long as people are willing to play others and strive to get better, something will click and a new series of events will emerge (I have neither the time nor the resources to set up one myself, as much as I'd like to). I can only hope this "drought" won't last long. Perhaps the fact that it snowed again here recently means something good will happen. Until next time, see you later.
